Racing Against Time

Although the Peerless skill was only Elite quality, and the attribute bonuses it provided were somewhat lacking compared to his other skills, this skill had one terrifying aspect: it had no cooldown time...

And... Jiang Cheng could still use Evolution Points to upgrade its quality...

Jiang Cheng never looked at a skill's quality when evaluating it, but rather its growth potential and how useful it would be to him.

With 200 million Evolution Points, 3.62 million Enhancement Points, and 200,000 gold coins, Jiang Cheng could now freely strengthen any skill.

Moreover, even if a skill had no use, he could fuse them together to create a new skill.

So Jiang Cheng directly spent 48 million Evolution Points, 480,000 Enhancement Points, and 48,000 gold coins to evolve Peerless to Epic level.

【Soul Slayer · Peerless】

Quality: Epic

Type: Active Buff Skill

Agility +300

Attack Speed +50%

Movement Speed +30%

Peerless: Consume 5000 Blood Bath points. After use, increases attack speed by 300%, movement speed by 150%, duration 360 seconds.

Blood Bath: Each attack dealing 10,000 damage grants 1 Blood Bath point. When health is below 10%, Peerless effects are doubled.

No Return: When health is below 1%, Blood Bath effects are doubled, Peerless effects are doubled, and all self attack power is tripled.

"The difficulty of obtaining Blood Bath points increased, and consumption went up by 4200..."

"This is the rhythm of digging my own grave."

Of course, this was just Jiang Cheng joking with himself.

Although consumption increased and the difficulty of obtaining Blood Bath points increased tenfold, he never lacked damage.

When attack multiplier reached 242 times, dealing millions of damage with one strike was really easy.

In other words, according to The Great Wasteland's damage calculation mechanism, it didn't mean that if you had a certain amount of health, only that much damage would be calculated.

Damage could overflow.

So Jiang Cheng could gain dozens or hundreds of Blood Bath points with one strike.

5000 Blood Bath points really wouldn't take long to accumulate.

Moreover, after the skill evolved, Blood Bath gained a new characteristic: when health was below 10%, Peerless effects could double.

Not to mention the No Return characteristic.

When health dropped below one percent, both Peerless and Blood Bath effects doubled again.

When No Return triggered, Peerless buff effects stacked four times, increasing movement speed by 600% and attack speed by 1200%!

Jiang Cheng calculated that when all status effects were active and No Return truly triggered, his attack speed reached a terrifying 0.12 seconds per strike, and movement speed reached a terrifying 0.15 seconds per step!

In other words, at peak condition, stuck at one percent health, he could achieve eight strikes per second and six steps per second without any technique bonuses.

Previously, even with all status skills activated, he could only achieve at most six strikes per second and three steps per second.

"This skill, if used well, might allow cross-level killing of high-level monsters with damage reduction."

Jiang Cheng pondered, thinking to himself.

After a 100-level difference, ordinary monsters and bosses had terrifying damage reduction. Crossing too many levels made them basically untouchable, which frustrated him.

He could now only gain Evolution Points by hunting monsters and bosses level 158 and below, or by hunting NPCs and story monsters, or doing dungeons.

The limitations were too great.

With Soul Slayer · Peerless, this cooldown-free skill, even if a level 159 boss had 80% damage reduction, Jiang Cheng could easily grind it to death.

"Skeleton Big Brother, they don't seem to have run. They're all gathered together and saying they want to kill you. It's so funny."

While Jiang Cheng was upgrading Peerless, Huo Silou logged into the streaming rooms to gather intelligence.

After discovering that Northern Frost and others had gathered everyone together, preparing to rush over and kill Jiang Cheng, Huo Silou immediately laughed.

Especially seeing the streaming rooms filled with cheering comments, Huo Silou's lips curved into a helpless smile.

"These people really don't know what kind of existence they're facing."

"In terms of attributes, you couldn't catch up even if you tried. In terms of equipment... he doesn't even care about legendary equipment... In terms of operation... the founder of divine techniques, he's basically your ancestor..."

Huo Silou silently mourned for Northern Frost and the others for three seconds in his heart.

"They've gathered?" Jiang Cheng smiled. "That does save me trouble."

Looking up at the sky and seeing the setting sun with evening clouds filling the sky, night about to quietly descend, Jiang Cheng's soul fire slightly condensed. "It's getting dark. Those stalkers should be making their appearance soon."

Since the update, Jiang Cheng had discovered he was being watched by some kind of dark creatures.

These creatures were formless and colorless, with no physical body, only soul forms, entirely shrouded in black mist. Whenever the sun set and night fell, they would appear without warning.

However, these past few days, these mysterious dark creatures hadn't taken any harmful actions against him, just quietly following behind him.

They would disappear during the day.

It seemed they were waiting for an opportunity to deliver a fatal blow to Jiang Cheng.

Now, with darkness approaching, Jiang Cheng had to be on guard.

"Where are they? I'm in a hurry."